Health

Los Angeles, August 14:Here’s good news for chocolate lovers. Eating chocolate twice or more a week can significantly reduce the risk of dying from heart disease in heart attack survivors, a new research has found.

Chicago, August 12:Eating a rich “Mediterranean” diet loaded with fruits, vegetables and olive oil and increasing physical activity levels can significantly reduce a person’s risk of developing Alzheimer's disease (AD), according to a new study by Columbia University researchers.

Chicago, August 13: U.S. researchers have found that aspirin not only wards off the recurrence of colon cancer but also lowers the threat of succumbing to the lethal disease.

Chapel Hill, August 11: A new research has suggested that women who have a history of breast cancer in their family can reduce the probability of getting affected by it if they breast-feed their child. The risk of having pre-menopausal breast cancer went down by 59 percent.

Toronto, August 6: The American Psychological Association (APA) claimed Wednesday that the efforts undertaken to change a person's sexual orientation from being a homosexual to making him a heterosexual are ineffective.

Bronx, New York, August 4: A new study confirms that older adults who engage in brain stimulating activities could ward of or delay the onset of the rapid memory decline.

Beijing, August 4: A health alert has been triggered in a remote town of north-western China, sealing it off from the outside world after an outbreak of deadly pneumonic plague killed three people.

Pittsburgh -- U.S. public health experts indicated Sunday the H1N1 flu will make a strong return, possibly as soon as the end of August.

Paris, Aug 2: In what was feared to be a massive H1N1 swine flu outbreak, many of the passengers on the Royal Caribbean cruise ship were reportedly suffering from flu like symptoms.

New York, July 31: Bristol-Myers Squibb (NYSE: BMY) and AstraZeneca (NYSE: AZN) today announced that the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) issued an approval on its new closely watched type 2 diabetes drug ONGLYZA™ (saxagliptin).